Web_servers on passthejoe

My 'dynamic' IP is pretty static

Sat, 21 Sep 2019 12:35:57 -0700

I have been running this web server on a Raspberry Pi Zero W in my coat closet for three months, and my dynamic IP still hasn’t changed.

That’s good because I still haven’t implemented a script to change where my URL points from FreeDNS in the event that my home IP changes. At some point I guess it’ll happen, and the server will be offline until I figure it out.

Or I’ll just sit down some time before then and work out the script …

Google Cloud nuked the web server on my VM

Mon, 05 Aug 2019 09:07:01 -0700

I wasn’t paying for my Google Cloud VM, and it turns out the price was right.

Since I started working on my own server in the coat closet, I haven’t been using my free Google VM.

I got an email today saying that it’s been 120 days since I’ve opened Google Cloud Shell. If I didn’t log in, “in 7 days, your Cloud Shell home directory will be automatically scheduled for deletion.”

Setting up FTP on my Raspberry Pi

Sun, 14 Jul 2019 18:05:22 -0700

Running your own servers — be they VPSes on Google, AWS or Digital Ocean, or Raspberry Pis in the closet — is a learning experience. You have to put on your sysadmin hat and get to work.

Today I’m trying to figure out the ftp server. I’ve used a hundred of them but never installed and configured one. The hardest part to figure out is the SSL encryption.

If you see this file, it means I’ve made some progress.